Résultats pour "Stoner" dans Fiction criminelle

“Commissario Guido Brunetti’s fourteenth case may be his best yet.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing...

Some secrets are worth killing for When DCI Duncan Bone is contacted by a terminally-ill psychiatric patient and given clues linking a forty-year-old unsolved murder to high-profile public figures, he finds himself locked into a conspiracy at the very heart of the Scottish criminal and political...

In a quiet kitchen, where two mugs wait by the kettle to be filled, Sheryl Hawne lies in a pool of blood. Her only daughter, Katie, is found at her side, still clutching the murder weapon and apparently incapable of speech. To Detective Kim Stone, the case seems open and shut. But Katie is in no state to be questioned, so Kim and the team must dig deep to understand what triggered this brutal act.

After seven hundred years of silence, a plague village claims one more death... They called Ashenby cursed ground—a medieval village wiped out by plague and left to rot on the Suffolk heath, its ruined stones untouched by generations who knew better than to dig there. But now a university archaeological team has broken through the ruins and found something that isn't centuries old—a body, sealed inside a hidden wartime foxhole, dead barely a week. Russell Fairbanks was a local soldier gone AWOL who came home to bury his mother.

Allmählich fügen sich die Puzzleteile von FBI Special Agent Autumn Trents Leben zusammen. Ihre Beziehung mit SSA Aiden Parrish steht auf einer soliden Grundlage, und endlich hat sie gegen ihren früheren Chef Anklage wegen sexueller Belästigung erhoben. Nun fehlt ihr nur noch eines: ihre kleine Schwester, von der sie in der Grundschulzeit getrennt wurde. Nicht nur ist Autumns lang vermisste Schwester in Florida aufgetaucht, sie ist auch die Hauptverdächtige in einer Mordserie.

Special Agent Dr. Autumn Trent genießt es, an Aiden Parrishs Seite aufzuwachen, als der romantische Sonntagmorgen vom Anruf eines Freundes gestört wird. Dessen Nichte ist in einem Bilderbuchstädtchen in Connecticut verschwunden … zusammen mit zwei weiteren Jugendlichen. Der Fall ist so verwirrend wie beunruhigend. Die Jugendlichen sind alle gute Schüler aus bestem Haus und stehen vor dem Abschlussjahr der Highschool.

One August afternoon, eight-year-old Grace Lennard skips into the garden of the childcare center she attends and vanishes into thin air. Rushing to the scene of Grace’s disappearance, Detective Kim Stone finds a chilling piece of evidence: the engraved heart bracelet belonging to Melody Jones - the little girl who was taken from a playground exactly 25 years ago. Hours before, Steven Harte had walked into Halesowen police station and confessed to having information that would lead Kim to Melody. And he told Kim she’d have a more urgent problem to deal with first. 

Sebastian, a young farmhand living in the Australian mallee, is being watched covertly by Val, a fugitive hiding in the forests on the banks of the River Murray. Val has an official document that confirms his death 14 years ago. There is no official document that confirms his particular skill: assassin. 

A murdered journalist was working on exposing the dark and sinister side of a cult led by a charismatic individual who Drake identifies as being their prime suspect. But the dead man’s private life isn’t what it appears to be, and soon the detectives identify other persons of interest.

Dr. Autumn Trent hat nach ihrem ersten offiziellen Fall als FBI-Agentin noch nicht einmal alle Berichte geschrieben, da werden Sie und der Rest der Abteilung für Verhaltensanalyse in die Hauptstadt Washington gerufen, um eine Serie von Einbruchsmorden aufzuklären. Die sechs Opfer haben nicht viel gemeinsam, doch sie alle sind wohlhabende Ehepaare, die eine Dinnerparty geben wollten und kurz davor getötet wurden.

Keine vierundzwanzig Stunden nach einer weiteren Beinahbegegnung mit dem Tod muss die Kriminal- und Forensikpsychologin Dr. Autumn Trent schon wieder arbeiten, statt sich endlich einmal erholen zu dürfen. Ihre beste Freundin, Special Agent Winter Black, ist verschwunden. Und dasselbe gilt für Winters jüngeren Bruder Justin ... einen brutalen Serienmörder. Um die Dinge noch schlimmer zu machen, fühlt Autumn sich für Winters Verschwinden verantwortlich.

Nach ihrer fünf Monate langen FBI-Ausbildung in Quantico freut sich Dr. Autumn Trent auf ihren ersten Arbeitstag als offizielle Special Agent der Abteilung für Verhaltensanalyse. Kaum wieder zuhause, stürzt eine junge Frau mit ausgeprägter Wasserphobie von einem Wasserfall zu Tode. Autumns Team wird zu der Kleinstadt Beechum County entsandt, um eine Selbstmordserie und eine Sekte zu untersuchen.

Five figures gather 'round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult-sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken, but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried, bound in blood. Years later a headmistress is found brutally strangled, the first in a spate of gruesome murders that shock the Black Country.

Drew Maclane was a star agent - until the day the killing had to stop. He withdrew, and for six years lived the life of a hermit in a monastery. But someone has tracked him down, leaving a trail of corpses...someone who knows all about him, who knows how to draw him back into that electrifying world where no one is as he seems, and where life's most horrifying and harrowing game is played.

Als ein brutaler Doppelmord die Stadt Sawmill, Oregon, erschüttert, benötigt das FBI Autumns Spezialkenntnisse. Die Tochter des getöteten Ehepaars, die gerade ihr eigenes Leben beginnen wollte, verschwand in der Tatnacht. Wird Autumn bald klar, welchen Plan der gesuchte Täter verfolgt: Er will Paare bestrafen, die ihr Ehegelübde brechen. Die Zahl der Opfer steigt, und der Killer geht immer größere Risiken ein. Was als Suche nach einem neunzehnjährigen Mädchen begann, wird zu einem Katz-und-Maus-Spiel.

When there is a murder in an over-55 community, it's up to Police Officer Julie Morales, who normally issues traffic violations in this sleepy retirement town in Northern California, to head the investigation.

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Alastair Stone needs a break. He’d gladly trade a big chunk of his newly-acquired fortune for a few uninterrupted weeks of rest, but that’s not going to happen. On top of dealing with his new magical status and a relationship heading in unexpected directions, he soon learns the bombshell revelations about his family aren’t even close to over yet. As if all that weren’t enough, an ancient and malevolent set of magical game pieces has resurfaced, leaving a trail of murder and mayhem in its wake.

When Superintendant Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit and Toby to visit his family in Cheshire, Gemma is soon entranced with Nantwich town's pretty buildings and the historic winding canal, and young Kit is instantly smitten with his cousin Lally.

Police Chief Jesse Stone has a problem—actually, several problems: dead bodies keep turning up. Investigating a serial killer in an affluent suburban town is difficult, and with the added pressures from the town selectmen and media, the heat is turning up on Jesse. The harder these outside forces push against him, the more Jesse retreats into himself. Despite all the odds, he's convinced it is up to him alone to stop the killings.